"Five thousan’ of ’em jes’ marched through town with their rifles. An’ they had their turkey shoot, an’ then they marched back. An’ that’s all they done. Well, sir, they ain’t been no trouble sence then."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 24. This quote highlights the idea that groups of people fighting together are stronger than the individual. A man called Black Hat tells Pa Joad how a group of poorly paid mountain men in Ohio joined a union to campaign for better pay. When they were branded as "reds" and threatened with violence, five thousand of them of them armed with guns marched through the town they worked in on a "turkey shoot." As a result the men’s union was accepted.